Kirby Ferguson has released the fourth and final part of his Everything is a Remix series. This episode is called System Failure, and it's about the concept of intellectual property, patents, and copyrights. Link

Kirby's video has bits of truth laced with misinformation. No patent covers just a "material object" alone. Most people don't even know about patent claims. Copyrights and patents are very different - patent is not about copying at all (it is about exclusion of use).

This is the problem with intellectual property in society - most people don't understand it, and videos like this just propagate misinformation.